The new city commission met Monday evening at the city hall with the mayor and all comm. except H.C. Jones present. The most important matter taken up by the commission was the subject of purchasing a fire truck suitable to the needs of the city of Marion. In 1916 the city purchased a 20 horse power fire truck from the International Harvester Co. but this truck now is discarded and of no use for fire purposes. The truck proved to be incapable of climbing the hills to the square on East St. and several times never reached the fire because it could not pull through mud. The truck is now incapable to being backed and Fire Chief Swain found it useless so has borrowed a Republic truck from the Motor Sales Co. and carries his hose on that. The old truck will be used by the city for hauling garbage and rubbish in the event that it cannot be sold.

(Extracted from the Marion Daily Republican and compiled by Harry Boyd, posted at http://www.marionfire.us/ )